Long range shooters , seeing my heart beat in the scope

[Broz]

Broz,

Just found a dealer near me and I will be calling them tomorrow. Do you take the Blaze Capsules or drink? How long before you notice a difference? Hopefully it will help.

I take the Enduro drink and one Blaze capsule daily. I was taking it only one day before the bear shot. So on day two the results were obvious to me.

Jeff

 

[Bravo 4]

I take the Enduro drink and one Blaze capsule daily. I was taking it only one day before the bear shot. So on day two the results were obvious to me.

Jeff

Broz,
Ima have to try some of that this year before I go to Colorado. Being an almost flat lander at sea level it seems no matter my physical fitness level the altitude kills me for several days...I don't even have to be moving!

JE Custom also has a good point about eating. A member here and buddy of mine has a daughter that shoots on the top levels (US and international). He was talking to me a while back about eating before/during/and after. The problem with me is I'm a 215 point grown man that HATES being hungry, so it seems like I'm eating constantly.

 

[RMulhern]

If you're going to hunt the HIGH COUNTRY.....being born/raised at 9000' ASL is a big help!!

Flat land folks can't make it up there! Not enough red cells to carry oxygen! Ask me how I know! I came out of the 82nd Airborne 50 years ago having me *** run off and was in good shape....I thought....until I tried climbing the mountains of Colorado elk hunting!!

Got to be born at and live at high altitude to give it a go!!

 

[WildRose]

How do I stop it , driving me nuts ! And stopping my heart isn't a option! Lol

Get your blood pressure checked and dont shoot from the prone on a full stomach.

I deal with this all the time and yes, it will drive you nuts.

 

[WildRose]

Shooting Prone with high power scopes is normally where it is worse because your belly is on the ground and this causes your diaphragm to react to your heart beat and move you up and down in time with your heart beat.

As suggested, lower power will at least minimize the appearance of movement, Sometimes this
lets you concentrate on trigger control and not so much on your heart beat and in some cases shoot better.

When I shot prone matches I found out that if I did not eat until after the match, I had better scores. (Your heart beats faster and harder when trying to digest food) Also once I figured out the wind and mirage if shooting a match where scopes were allowed, I lowered the power of the scope where all of these problems didn't seem to bad and just concentrated on hold and trigger control. It will mess with your mind if you let it. As stated you can calm it to some extent but you cant stop it.

The other way that helped was to start squeezing just after you heart beat, and hopefully the trigger would break before the next heart beat. You have to practice this or you will end up punching the trigger and we all know where that leads.

J E CUSTOM

The big part of the equation here is just volume.

When you have a full stomach and get prone that volume is pushed up against your diaphragm which compresses then the heart and large vessels in your chest along with the abdominal aorta.

Its the same reason its harder to breathe prone with a full stomach.

One way to help relieve it is simply to roll a bit to your firing side and bring your bent knee forward on your non firing side.

 

[Maina]

First of thanks to everyone that posted on this ! Me and my son where trying to see what we could get for MOA in the two rifles we where trying to set up . Trying to get that 1/2 moa come hell or high water all week reloading shooting trying rounds . And we where doing it shooting 100 yards with the magnification quite high on our scopes .
Well we got it ! My 15 year old ended up with clover leaf shoots and I got 1/2 moa.
I noticed the further our shots were out seeing a heartbeat Got less from five and 600 yards it was like nothing!
My son had Bulls eyes on 300 and 400 1/2 inch of Bulls eye at 500 and 1/2 inch of at 600 yards ! He couldn't be leave it . Me eather my longest shot was 300 yards befor that .
What really blew me away was I was using the to dialing in the MOA he was using the MOA hashes in his long range scope and killing it he looked at me and laughed and said well I'm turning Diles his deer will already be dead !
I asked him how he knew how to use the hashmarks he said he use them all the time online and sniper wargames
I never saw so much joy in his eyes as he had shooting like that . He was shooting golf ball size targets out to 600 yards . He said when we doing a 1000 lol